The most exciting rhythms seem unexpected and complex, the most beautiful melodies simple and inevitable.
-W. H. Auden
"The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Prose, Volume III, 1949-1955"
Quotations
Music
A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.
-Leopold Stokowski
I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
-Tom Waits
Music is very personal. It means different things to different people. To you it means belonging. To me it means knowing I exist.
-Simon Cheshire
"Plastic Fantastic"
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-Aldous Huxley
"Music At Night: And Other Essays"
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
-Ludwig Van Beethoven
Rhythm is something you either have or don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over.
-Elvis Presley
There is always music amongst the trees in the garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it.
-Minnie Aumonier
I like great music, but who doesn’t? Oh yeah, deaf people.
-Jarod Kintz
"The Days of Yay are Here! Wake Me Up When They're Over."
Music touches us emotionally, where words alone can't.
-Johnny Depp
